Yevgeny Mayorov

Yevgeny Mayorov and his twin brother Boris started to play hockey in 1956 with Spartak Moskva and both played with this club for most of their careers. Yevgeny Mayorov won two Soviet Championships with them in 1962 and 1967. In 1967, Yevgeny retired from hockey and started to work as a coach with Spartak Moskva, placing second at the 1968 Soviet Championships, but he returned as a player in 1968-69 with Vehmaisten Urheilijat Tampere. Internationally Yevgeny Mayorov won gold at the 1964 Olympic Games, was World and European Champion in 1963 and 1964 and won bronze at the 1961 World Championships and silver at the 1961 European Championships. From 1969, after his retirement from hockey, until 1976, Yevgeny Mayorov worked as a director of Spartak Moskva. In the late1960s, Yevgeny Mayorov also started work as a television ice hockey commentator. From 1982, until his death in 1997, Yevgeny Mayorov worked as a full time hockey commentator and journalist with Gosteleradio USSR (Soviet and later Russian national broadcasting company). After his death, in 1998, Yevgeny Mayorov was awarded the TEFI award (Russian annual television award) and was also named the best sports commentator of the year.